Walking to the first tee at Lakeview Golf Course, Trinity Lutheran School's John Bent approached the par 3, 96-yard hole like he would any other hole. Except the only difference this time was the result. Using his pitching wedge from the back of the tees, Bent's ensuing drive landed to the right of the hole, bounced a little bit, rolled left, and into the cup for a hole-in-one. "I would have expected that the ball would fly somewhere and hit someone," said Bent, laughing. "It was really lucky.

Clay Gibbs hopes to eventually play on the PGA Tour and he is certainly on the right path. The 13-year-old Wellington teen was runner-up in the recent South Florida PGA Junior Tour Championship golf event held at Santa Lucia River Club in Port St. Lucie. Gibbs, who competed in the Boys 12-13 Age Division, recorded rounds of 76 and 79, for a 155 total. Gibbs recorded an impressive seven birdies during the two-day competition that was won by Weston's Alberto Martinez, who shot a two-day total of 143 (73-70)

MARGATE -- Ron Nachman, a member of the Israeli Knesset and mayor of the city of Ariel, will discuss the present political climate in Israel on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 9:30 a.m. at Temple Beth Am. With 100,000 people, Ariel is the second largest city on the West Bank. Nachman`s appearance is being sponsored by Temple Beth Am Adult Education. His speech is free and open to the public. Temple Beth Am is located at the corner of Royal Palm Boulevard and Rock Island Road. For more information, call Dinos Gioulakis at 752-6664 or Harry Posin, 973-4490.

The LPGA-USGA girls' golf program, based at Okeeheelee Golf Course in West Palm Beach, recently participated in a shoot for a national television commercial. Filming took place at Okeeheelee and Palm Beach Central Community High School. The commercial, a public service announcement, aired during the 2012 U.S. Open Championship on NBC in June and will air during select LPGA events during the remainder of the golf season. "The LPGA-USGA Girls Golf program is a strong example of [similar]

If you had to choose a single word to help you play golf more intuitively and instinctively, it would be "swing." Every golf shot is a swing. From the smallest putt to the longest drive, the essence of swinging is the heartbeat of your game. With a clear awareness of the target, you can stimulate your intuitive senses. It`s interesting to note the Latin root of the word intuition, intueri, means to look at or see. Jack Nicklaus` references to visualization of his shots prepare his intuitive senses.

Happy tax day, everybody! No, really. We're going about this all wrong. Instead of "economic stimulus packages," what our federal government should be doing is taxing the heck out of the most overpaid, overwrought segment of our whacked-out society. That's right, our friendly neighborhood sports heroes and the bozos that hype them. Think of it as the world's largest kangaroo court. Only instead of blowing all the money on a team party, it will go toward improving our schools, roads and parks.

Tiger Woods was setting up over a tricky chip from the pine straw behind the 12th hole at Augusta National on Saturday when a golf ball thudded onto the green from out of nowhere. The 12th hole is in a small valley beneath the neighboring Augusta Country Club's ninth fairway. "Some guy from Augusta Country Club sprayed one," Woods said. "You know that scene from Caddyshack II, where the ball just went up over the fence? He didn't say anything. It was all of a sudden, `splat,' on the green."

Clay Gibbs hopes to eventually play on the PGA Tour and he is certainly on the right path. The 13-year-old Wellington teen was runner-up in the recent South Florida PGA Junior Tour Championship golf event held at Santa Lucia River Club in Port St. Lucie. Gibbs, who competed in the Boys 12-13 Age Division, recorded rounds of 76 and 79, for a 155 total. Gibbs recorded an impressive seven birdies during the two-day competition that was won by Weston's Alberto Martinez, who shot a two-day total of 143 (73-70)

When golfers at the Stonebridge Golf and Country Club try to avoid the water hazard on the ninth hole, it is usually Benjamin Erlich who ends up teed-off. Erlich, whose home is less than 50 feet from the fairway, has had to put up with golf balls coming through his windows since he moved to the west Boca Raton country club five years ago. But when a golf ball crashed into two of his windows in November, Erlich shot off a round of his own, filing a lawsuit against a neighbor who he claims drove the golf ball into his home.

Posted by Dave Hyde on September 15, 2009 07:47 AM, September 15, 2009

Hyde Five: 1. That's why they're the Patriots. That's why he's Tom Brady. In the second half of Monday night's miracle win against Buffalo, Brady completed 26 of 31 passes. On the winning drive - a gift from a Buffalo fumbled kickoff - Brady was three for three. No Richard Seymour. No Tedy Bruschi. No Rodney Harrison, Mike Vrabel, Scott Pioli or Josh McDaniels. No problem for the Patriots. Brady smooths over a lot of problems when he finishes games like that. 2. In his Hall of Fame speech last weekend, Michael Jordan related the story of finding a note from Pat Riley under his hotel room door some time after his retirement.

Walking to the first tee at Lakeview Golf Course, Trinity Lutheran School's John Bent approached the par 3, 96-yard hole like he would any other hole. Except the only difference this time was the result. Using his pitching wedge from the back of the tees, Bent's ensuing drive landed to the right of the hole, bounced a little bit, rolled left, and into the cup for a hole-in-one. "I would have expected that the ball would fly somewhere and hit someone," said Bent, laughing. "It was really lucky.

Posted by Dave Hyde on September 15, 2009 07:47 AM, September 15, 2009

Hyde Five: 1. That's why they're the Patriots. That's why he's Tom Brady. In the second half of Monday night's miracle win against Buffalo, Brady completed 26 of 31 passes. On the winning drive - a gift from a Buffalo fumbled kickoff - Brady was three for three. No Richard Seymour. No Tedy Bruschi. No Rodney Harrison, Mike Vrabel, Scott Pioli or Josh McDaniels. No problem for the Patriots. Brady smooths over a lot of problems when he finishes games like that. 2. In his Hall of Fame speech last weekend, Michael Jordan related the story of finding a note from Pat Riley under his hotel room door some time after his retirement.

Happy tax day, everybody! No, really. We're going about this all wrong. Instead of "economic stimulus packages," what our federal government should be doing is taxing the heck out of the most overpaid, overwrought segment of our whacked-out society. That's right, our friendly neighborhood sports heroes and the bozos that hype them. Think of it as the world's largest kangaroo court. Only instead of blowing all the money on a team party, it will go toward improving our schools, roads and parks.

By Jerome Burdi Staff Writer and Staff Researcher William Lucey contributed to this report, March 25, 2006

Cynthia Moffett was known as a woman with attitude, someone who wouldn't give up a fight. Moffett was found dead Thursday night outside a golf shop west of Lake Worth, shot several times in what deputies suspect was a robbery gone bad. To the very end, there were signs of her moxie: Moffett apparently startled or confronted whoever entered the shop, sheriff's spokesman Paul Miller said. Rain was pounding the Forest Oaks Golf Club near Lake Worth and Jog roads Thursday, so it closed early.

Boys and girls of all sizes and golfing abilities flocked to the Don Law Golf Improvement Center on April 17 at Boca Dunes Golf and Country Club in Boca Raton for Junior Golf Day. The free event, in its fourth year, serves to link children and golf. "A lot of people play a role in making this happen," program director Don Law said. For one, country clubs from Vero Beach to Key West donated used clubs for the event. "We gave away a couple hundred clubs this year. We cut them down and put new grips on for the kids," Law said.

Nearly an hour later, as darkness came to the 18th green and a Tommy James and the Shondells song echoed from the nearby Bogey Bar, you could still walk around the hole and make out remnants of the shot, like footprints the tide hadn't yet washed away. "That must be where it hit," Tom Anderson said to his son. They were in from Nebraska, enjoying a father-son trip of golf and sidestepping winter. Now they were inspecting where all heaven broke loose Sunday evening at Doral. The father pointed to a spot on the green about eight feet before the hole.

Sorry. Give me a second. Can't talk right now. Can't even breathe after failing the President's new fitness test. As a kid, I once passed the old version. One hundred sit-ups. Twenty pull-ups. That sort of thing. I remember the phys ed teacher, Mr. Dustman, called the winners up in front of our sixth-grade class and presented us with presidentially signed certificates, though the way my body feels right now, the signature must've been Lincoln's. My lungs sound like bagpipes. My legs are en fuego.

Maybe he should retire after all. Go out on top. Never hit another golf shot in a tournament again. Ben Hogan did it, but it was too late. Arnold Palmer and Gary Player have stuck around, too proud to admit they`re not factors so much as gate attractions. Maybe Jack Nicklaus should show them all that he is, indeed, above the game. That he doesn`t need it. That, in his final tournament, he shot 65 in the final round to pass Seve Ballesteros, Greg Norman, Bernhard Langer, Tom Kite and, above all, Tom Watson.

Sorry. Give me a second. Can't talk right now. Can't even breathe after failing the President's new fitness test. As a kid, I once passed the old version. One hundred sit-ups. Twenty pull-ups. That sort of thing. I remember the phys ed teacher, Mr. Dustman, called the winners up in front of our sixth-grade class and presented us with presidentially signed certificates, though the way my body feels right now, the signature must've been Lincoln's. My lungs sound like bagpipes. My legs are en fuego.

Most people play golf their whole lives without making a hole-in-one. Evelyn Tucci, 82, was no exception. That is, until Tuesday, when the part-time resident of Lighthouse Point did the unbelievable and made not one ace, but two. "It was amazing," said David Deuschle, assistant golf pro at Crystal Lake Country Club in Pompano Beach, where Tucci was playing in a women's member/guest tournament. How amazing? According to an article in the March 2000 Golf Digest, the odds of one person making two holes in one during one round are 67 million to one. Tucci, a 32-handicap player who normally shoots in the low 100s, was paired with her friend and bridge partner Carin West for the two-person best-ball format.